The AI voice-list changed again: Cartesia pressed Qwen, Eleven Labs

Cartesia released a new generation of real-time speech synthesis models, Sonic 3.6, which is now open in Beta, supporting 44 languages and winning first on the TTS list of artificial anallysis. The sonic 3.6 sequence was preceded by a native sound blinding of Ali Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS-Plus, Speechifyai Simba 3.2 and Google Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS. Controlled voice uses the same clone, Sonic 3.6 remains first. Generating at 136.1 characters per second, Eleven Labs Eleven V3 at 46.7 and Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS at 24.2. The price was $49 per million character, less than half of Eleven V3, but higher than Qwen ' s $27.6 and Simba ' s $10 of 3.2。